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Keep wanting to do another one of these posts from my Beer of the Week Group
anyway two dates for the diary
The Worlds Biggest Real Ale festival 20th October to 16th November
Last night (thursday) I spent a few hours enjoying the real ale at the new home of the Cardiff Beer festival.
With it’s move to the CIA I was a bit wossname, but the elbow room made for a good atomosphere on the first night… a good mix of beardies, ladys and blokes with clipboards marking off their favourites, of course I just take pictures of the clips instead, well worth a visit Today or Saturday (before the Springsteen gig at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium)
They will be having live music Tonight and saturday, and the food (which i did not try last night) was
I did not take that many pictures, but hopefully will be going back on Saturday for a refresher.
The Dare brewery was one I had not tried before, but I as always enjoy the Rhymney Dark
The beer that I would go back for more and more is Otley’s Dark Eight 0 (i think it was called that but did not take picture), a mix of their strong 08 and their dark, it was just brewed for the festival but I hope the Otley brothers brew it for their pubs and maybe bottling.
It was a shame I had to leave as I did not even get to the ciders.
Many thanks to the hospitality of Arfur Daley, read his blog for updates on the festival almost live!
The festival has a facebook group as well.
This is my 801st post on this here blog…
The beer first – as you know I like my real ale, but yesteday I went along to a new pub in the centre of Cardiff, called zero degrees, its pub that brew’s it’s own beer or as they say
ZERODEGREES is a pioneering drinking and dining concept at the forefront of the emerging trend towards fresh, handcrafted beers brewed by microbreweries.
anyway it’s was not real ale in the sense of what I normally drink, but “hand crafted beers on tap” I only tried a few of them, the Pale Ale 4.6% was the only one that could be seen to be like a normal bitter.
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The Black Lager 4.8% was like a beer I had in prague (and you can get it in weatherspoons – Kozel), very nice and malty.
The star of the show was a Speciality fruit beer, a mango wheat beer
I know this seen as more a ladies drink 
, but on a warm day it was perfect.
The good thing about zero degrees is that they provide take outs, in 5l party packs or 50L packs!!
Well worth a visit but not this weekend as Munster are playing in the heineken cup and it will be packed as it’s just next to the Millenium Staduim
The photos now! they deserve a post of their own, so thats now 802 posts on this blog!
So good and it’s only Tueasday and I have had two pints of it..
Smooth and tasty everything a porter should be if I gave stars it would get ********* out of 10.
wonderful
It’s Be Nice to Nettles Week – 14 – 25 May 2008
Highlighting that the stinging nettle plays a very important role for both rural and urban wildlife supporting over 40 species of insect including some of our most colourful butterflies.
The stinging nettle is one of the most important native plants for wildlife in the UK. An ideal home for insects.
More info here, maybe you could create your own nettle patch, but I know some allotment sheddies are well ahead of the game.
I have done my part already 
with a few bottle of Hugh Fernley Whittingstall wossname River Cottage stinger Ale made from organic nettles, a nice rounded beer I found…
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